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David Miller
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| Posted: February 13 2008 at 11:21am | IP Logged | 1
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I wanted to publicly thank Brian again for the lovely Darkseid figure, which arrived this weekend. Wow, what a thing of beauty. Do action figures even come with cloth capes anymore?
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Ryan Maxwell
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| Posted: February 13 2008 at 12:30pm | IP Logged | 2
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Just arrived from Midtown Comics. Number 334/1200 for those keeping score. I nearly pitched a fit when I opened the box and saw the vastly inferior Shiflett version on the packaging. I didn't realize they use one version on each side. Whew.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: February 13 2008 at 2:11pm | IP Logged | 3
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I nearly pitched a fit when I opened the box and saw the vastly inferior Shiflett version on the packaging.•• Randy managed to get me with that on the Wasp. I ordered the modern version, but the packaging opening to reveal the armless "classic" version. Then I turned the box over.
What's the little Marina figure in the b.g., Ryan?
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Gil Dowling
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| Posted: February 13 2008 at 2:26pm | IP Logged | 4
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It's a Heroclix figure JB...
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Garett Stehle
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Joined: April 21 2004
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| Posted: February 13 2008 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | 5
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John Byrne
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| Posted: February 13 2008 at 5:10pm | IP Logged | 6
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Didn't know about those!
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Al Cook
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| Posted: February 13 2008 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | 7
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They look awful.
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Ryan Maxwell
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| Posted: February 13 2008 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | 8
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I have a couple of AF figures I built out of some of the original Heroclix back in 2001 or '02. I'll put photos up tomorrow. Not great work, but there wasn't a lot of choices for me to chop up and rebuild at the time. I started but never finished making a Northstar, since the one that was issued had some funky costume on.
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Garett Stehle
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| Posted: February 13 2008 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | 9
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insert voice of Comic book guy from the Simpsons:
"worst Northstar EVER"
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John Byrne
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| Posted: February 13 2008 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | 10
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I love me my HeroClix Galactus, but the rest never quite gelled for me. I appreciate the skill that goes into sculpting something that small, but, well, like I said, the Clix didn't quite click.
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Michael Roberts
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| Posted: February 13 2008 at 7:54pm | IP Logged | 11
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The sculpts for HeroClix have been improving, but there's only so much you can do at that size. The DC ones seem to turn out better than the Marvel ones.
I love my large scale HeroClix. I have Galactus, Spectre and Fin Fang Foom:
(The orange was sold at SDCC. The non-SDCC ones are green.)
I'm hoping to grab a Starro at some point:
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Aaron Smith
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| Posted: February 13 2008 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | 12
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Every time I see Starro either on that classic Justice League cover, or on some recreation of it , the first thing that pops into my head (no matter how many times it happens...I should know better by know) is a very short lived impression that the Flash is running up a ramp after Captain America's shield.
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